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Enhanced Scheduling Algorithms for Improved TCP Performance in Wireless IP Networks
Overview Current and next-generation wireless networks rely on multi-user diversity and scheduling techniques (such as the commonly used Proportional Fair (PF) algorithm) to achieve greater system throughput and higher efficiencies for wireless data applications over a time-varying wireless channel. This paper shows that the variability of the inter-scheduling intervals, as introduced by the PF scheduling algorithm, can have adverse effects on TCP and its congestion control mechanism and lead to spurious timeouts and unnecessarily low throughput. An enhanced scheduling algorithm is proposed that is explicitly tuned towards throughput performance at the TCP layer. However this algorithm does not use any explicit information from the TCP layer and solely relies on information readily available at the link layer at which the scheduler resides.
| Publisher | Alcatel-Lucent | File Format | |
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| Date Published | February 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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